Program Updates & Announcements
Please visit our new 2004 Winter Edition of API HIV Forum Newsletter (pdf opens in new window)
“Fortune Cookie Facts”
If you had the opportunity to stop by our exhibit booth at the US Conference on AIDS in October 2004, then you may have gotten one of our specially made fortune cookies. Each fortune cookie contained a fact about Asian & Pacific Islander communities.
- Compared to 1998 data, 38% more AIDS cases were newly diagnosed among APIs in 2002.
CDC estimates that in 1998, there were 346 newly diagnosed cases of AIDS among Asians and Pacific Islanders. In comparison, CDC estimates that in 2002, there were 478 newly diagnosed cases of AIDS among Asians and Pacific Islanders. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats/hasr1402.htm
- More than 50% of CPGs in the US do not have even one API CPG member.
According to 2001 CPG membership data submitted to CDC, the following states had zero API representation on their CPGs: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia.
- Some API communities have HIV prevalence rates as high as 27%.
A 1997 study by Osmond, Page, Wiley, et al. reported HIV prevalence rates as high as 27% for Asian & Pacific Islander gay men in San Francisco and Orange County, CA.
Osmond DH, Page K, Wiley J, et al. HIV infection in homosexual and bisexual men 18 to 29 years of age. Am J Public Health 1994;84: p1993-1997
Gellert GA, Moore DF, Maxwell RM, et al. Targeted HIV seroprevalence among Vietnames in southern California, Gen Med. 1994;70: p265-267.
Vaccine Symposium
Did you miss the Vaccine Symposium? We had over 30 people attended to get updates on the HIV Vaccine Trial Research and media training.
If you like to learn more about HIV Vaccine Trial visit:
AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC)
FACT SHEET - View APIAHF's fact sheet "Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders and HIV Testing". Other factsheets and materials are also available at the Resource Center.
Events & Trainings
Have an event you would like to announce? Please email them to mleung@apiahf.org
Ryan White National Youth Conference on HIV/AIDS
Nashville, TN
February 19 – 21, 2005
Visit www.rwnyc.org for more information
National HIV Prevention Confernece
Atlanta, GA
June 12 - 15, 2005
Visit www.2005HIVPrevConf.org for more information
National Minority AIDS Council HIV Prevention Leadership Summit
San Francisco, CA
July 31 – August 3, 2005
Visit www.nmac.org for more information.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards
Announcing the 12th grant cycle of the Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research program, established in 1992 by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program provides funding to highly qualified individuals from a variety of fields to undertake broad, innovative, policy-relevant studies of the most challenging health and health care issues facing America. Research grants of up to $275,000 are available to support 24- to 36-month projects that are broad in scope and potential impact, and hold promise for improving our understanding of significant health and health care-related problems and contributing to the development of sound health policies. Up to 10 awards will be made during the 2004 grant cycle. The deadline for receipt of letters of intent is April 1, 2004. More information online at www.ihhcpar.rutgers.edu/rwjf
Please contact the National Program Office (e-mail preferred):
Lynn Rogut, Deputy Director - Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
Telephone: 732.932.3817
Email: depdir@ihhcpar.rutgers.edu
